Canopy-support.



H. M. CARROLL.

CANOPY SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24. HI].

1 ,260,5 1 1 Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

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HOUSTON M. CARROLL, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

CANOPY-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2 6, i918.

Application filed May 24, 1917. Serial No. 170,755.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOUSTON M. CARROLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Canopy-Support, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of this invention is a canopy support intended especially for attachment to a bedstead to support a mosquito netting, and the objects of the invention are, first, to provide a canopy support which may be folded out of the way when not in use, sec end, to provide resilient canopy supporting arms, third, to provide a simple and efficient support.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention. 7

A practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bed equipped with a support constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the sup port folded and one of the side bars of the bed broken away.

Fi 3 is a detail front elevation of one of the supporting members.

Referring to the drawing by numerals:

The device consists of supporting arms 1, preferably made of resilient wire. Each arm is bent at one end to form a short laterally extending portion 2, the free end of which is bent to form an angularly disposed eye 3. Adjacent the other end the wire which forms arm l is wound to form a coiled spring i from one end of which extends the short arm 5 which. terminates in the angled end 6. The supports may be attached to the side bars of a bed by staples 7 which em brace the short arm 5 and its angled end 6. or in any other suitable and convenient anner.

The device is here shown attached to the side bars 8 of a bed provided with the usual head 9 and foot 10 which support and are connected by the side pieces. A cord 11 may be strung through the eyes 3 in a manner calculated to best support the mosquito netting, not shown.

When the device is not in use the arms may be bent down and hooked under the side bars 8, as seen most clearly in Fig. 2.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A canopy support. comprising normally vertical arms, hooks formed at the upper ends of the arms and adapted to underlie the side bars of a bed when the arms are folded, means for securing the arms to the side bars of a bed, and means for rotating the arms to catch the books under the side bars of the bed.

2. A. canopy support comprising resiliently held normally vertical arms, hooks forn'ied at the upper ends of the arms and adapted to catch. under the side bar of a bed, means for securing the arms to the side bars of a bed, and means for rotating the arms to hook the ends under the side bars.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto attired my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HOUSTON M. CARROLL.

Witnesses:

HERMAN M. CARROLL, J. E. CARROLL.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained tor five cents each, by addressing the commissioner of Eatente.

Washington, D. G. 

